Brut Sport and the electro Lotus
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jonny and Richard discuss the new Lotus Eletre and try on a freshly-discovered retro aftershave. Also in this episode, Roy Orbison's poor standards of car maintenance, the appeal of 1950s Cadillacs, getting insulted by Robbie Coltrane, meeting Elisa Artioli, the highly competitive small blue knob pill market, entries in the biggest engine capacity spread game, details of Jonny's new car, and why the Eletre isn't actually a Lotus at all.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Richard Porter, I'm Johnny Smith, and this is Smith and Sniff. It's a podcast where two friends talk about cars and many other things. |
| 0:13.0 | Okay, I had to escape. The city was sticky and cruel. Maybe I should have called you first, but I was dying to get to you. |
| 0:19.0 | I was dreaming while I drove the long straight road ahead. |
| 0:22.0 | Hang on, hold on. I could taste your sweet kisses, your arms wrap up. |
| 0:25.0 | This is not the copyright infringement hour. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. |
| 0:29.0 | You can't do this. No, you're infringing copyrights. No, we're not. |
| 0:32.0 | You're quite reading out someone else's work. I'm quoting. |
| 0:35.0 | Orbison will rise up from the grave and smote you with his sunglasses of just this. |
| 0:42.0 | Look, I drove all night to get to you. Is that all right? I just, I crept in your room. |
| 0:48.0 | I woke you from your sleep. Yeah, there's the sinister editor. |
| 0:52.0 | Don't say it's much if you've got the other house. |
| 0:57.0 | He holds the note in that for a long time, doesn't he? He gets towards the end. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, he drove all night. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, and all the rest of the band have popped out together. |
| 1:08.0 | They've got it. They've got it. They've got it. |
| 1:13.0 | Do you know why I've started this podcast with that? |
| 1:17.0 | It's gone. That song came out 30 years ago. |
| 1:20.0 | This is 30th anniversary, but he was dead five years previous or four years previous to that. |
| 1:26.0 | Oh, yeah. Was it a posthumous release? |
| 1:29.0 | He recorded it in 87 and it got released in 92. |
| 1:33.0 | And the music video, I can't really remember the music video, but I think it, |
| 1:37.0 | it was that era in the late 80s, early 90s, when lots of 50s American cars appeared in every music video. |
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